Literature

Epics, drama, essays and tales across the literatures the archive holds.

117 texts · 9 literatures

English Literature62 texts

William Shakespeare45 textsopen the shelf

A Lover’s ComplaintWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
A Midsummer Night’s DreamWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
All’s Well That Ends WellWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
CymbelineWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
King Henry the EighthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
King Richard the ThirdWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Love’s Labour’s LostWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Measure for MeasureWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Pericles, Prince of TyreWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The First Part of Henry the SixthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The First Part of King Henry the FourthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Life and Death of King JohnWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Life and Death of King Richard the SecondWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Life of King Henry the FifthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Life of Timon of AthensWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Merry Wives of WindsorWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Passionate PilgrimWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Phoenix and the TurtleWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Rape of LucreceWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Second Part of King Henry the FourthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Second Part of King Henry the SixthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Third Part of King Henry the SixthWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of CoriolanusWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of King LearWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Tragedy of Titus AndronicusWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Two Gentlemen of VeronaWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Two Noble KinsmenWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
The Winter’s TaleWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Troilus and CressidaWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Twelfth Night; or, What You WillWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
Venus and AdonisWilliam Shakespeare · 1623

Francis Bacon5 textsopen the shelf

Bacon's Essays & Wisdom of the AncientsFrancis Bacon · 1609
New AtlantisFrancis Bacon · 1627
Of Gardens (an essay)Francis Bacon · 1625
The Advancement of LearningFrancis Bacon · 1605
Valerius Terminus, of the Interpretation of NatureFrancis Bacon · 1603

BeowulfFrancis Gummere · 1910
Devil Stories: An AnthologyMaximilian Rudwin · 1921
Dialogues of the DeadGeorge Lyttelton · 1760
Folk-lore of ShakespeareT.F. Thiselton-Dyer · 1883
Paradise LostAnonymous · 1667
Rumanian Bird and Beast StoriesMoses Gaster · 1915
The Burning WheelAldous Huxley · 1916
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireEdward Gibbon · 1776
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and PoetryWalter Pater · 1873
The Well at the World's EndWilliam Morris · 1896
The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the PhoenicianEdwin Lester Arnold · 1890
The Wood Beyond the WorldWilliam Morris · 1894

Greek Literature34 texts

Plutarch6 textsopen the shelf

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1George Long · 1894
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2George Long · 1894
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3George Long · 1894
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4George Long · 1894
Plutarch's Roman and Greek QuestionsWilliam W. Goodwin · 1874
Romane QuestionsPhilemon Holland · 1603

Aristophanes4 textsopen the shelf

PeaceAnonymous · 1900
The BirdsAnonymous · 1900
The CloudsAnonymous · 1900
The FrogsAnonymous · 1900

Herodotus3 textsopen the shelf

The Histories, Volume 1G.C. Macaulay · 1890
The Histories, Volume 2G.C. Macaulay · 1890
The History of Herodotus (Rawlinson)George Rawlinson · 1858

Homer3 textsopen the shelf

IliadEarl of Derby · 1864
OdysseySamuel Butler · 1900
The Odyssey (Pope)Alexander Pope · 1725

Sophocles3 textsopen the shelf

Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles · 1900
Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, AntigoneFrancis Storr · 1912
The Seven Plays of SophoclesLewis Campbell · 1906

Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and RomansFranz Cumont · 1912
Cerberus, the Dog of HadesMaurice Bloomfield · 1905
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHugh G. Evelyn-White · 1914
Instruments of ReductionFrancis Adams · 1849
Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic EuropeDonald A. Mackenzie · 1917
On the Migration of FablesMax Müller · 1881
Prometheus Bound and The Seven Against ThebesE.H. Plumptre · 1887
The Eleusinian and Bacchic MysteriesThomas Taylor · 1891
The Evil EyeFrederick Thomas Elworthy · 1895
The History of the Peloponnesian WarRichard Crawley · 1874
The House of Atreus (Oresteia)E.D.A. Morshead · 1881
The Invasion of India by Alexander the GreatJ.W. McCrindle · 1893
The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan & The Shield of HerculesCharles Abraham Elton · 1815on the map · Ancient World
The Syrian Goddess (De Dea Syria)Herbert A. Strong, John Garstang · 1913on the map · Ancient World
The Tragedies of Euripides, Vol 1Theodore Alois Buckley · 1850

Persian Literature6 texts

George Rawlinson3 textsopen the shelf

The Seven Great Monarchies, Vol 5: PersiaGeorge Rawlinson · 1871
The Seven Great Monarchies, Vol 6: ParthiaGeorge Rawlinson · 1871
The Seven Great Monarchies, Vol 7: The Sassanian (New Persian) EmpireGeorge Rawlinson · 1871

The GulistanEdward Rehatsek · 1888
The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamEdward FitzGerald · 1859
The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. IEdward William Lane · 1885

American Literature4 texts

PoemsEdgar Allan Poe · 1900
PoemsRalph Emerson · 1900
PoemsRobert Frost · 1923
Poems by Emily DickinsoEmily Dickinson · 1900

German Literature4 texts

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe4 textsopen the shelf

Faust: A TragedyJohn Stuart Blackie · 1880
The Poems of GoetheEdgar Alfred Bowring · 1853
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol 1Thomas Carlyle · 1824
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol 2Thomas Carlyle · 1824

Latin Literature4 texts

A Dialogue Concerning OratoryAnonymous · 1811
AeneidJohn Dryden · 1697
HistoriesAlfred Church, William Brodribb · 1873
MetamorphosesSamuel Garth · 1717

Arabic Literature1 texts

A Literary History of the ArabsReynold A. Nicholson · 1907

French Literature1 texts

PoemsVictor Hugo · 1888

Spanish Literature1 texts

Don QuixoteJohn Ormsby · 1885